Hi to the group and thanks to Debbie for the invitation to join!

I've been writing a green blog for about a year called Chemistry for a sustainable world. It started out focusing on chemistry and how industrial chemistry can and should be improved to protect health and the environment. This is an area I've worked on professionally in the past. However, most of the concerns that readers had, especially with the recent surge in oil and gas prices, had to do with energy, energy policy and related politics and science, so I have covered those topics extensively, also.

I've spent a bit of time discussing practical alternative energy, the current White House's policy toward the environment, problems caused by political appointees and political dogma in various parts of the US government, the attempted suppression of science by the White House, problems getting the Federal government to obey its own laws and Federal Court orders, environmental problems in China, and things like this.

I try to add my own analysis whenever possible, and to compare and contrast different opinions. Sometime I just have news listed with links to the source. I certainly welcome discussion and debate!

In the meantime, I've also started a few other sites that deal with the environment (though I also write about fiction, and do some amateur photography, and these subjects converge in a few places).

I'd appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. Here are my other environmentally related sites (I'll spare you from all the other sites):

http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Sustainability Sustainability and the environment

http://www.squidoo.com/solarpowerlens Solar Power lens

http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=467519&nav=MyGather Gather.com (this features my environmental articles, fiction reviews and selected photos, and contains some vigorous discussion on politics and the environment)

I hope these are useful. Best wishes, Jim